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Pillock Productions Presents ...

OK, it was 8 moves, not 6. I now present for the absolute delight of all, a disaster that must illustrate incompetence beyond peer ... the likes of which I have never seen reproduced anywhere ... ever!

As such I claim the Gold Medal before the close of entries. The rest of you may fight it out for Silver and Bronze.

Another of my super shockers from the past, in which, playing a then reigning (or recently dethroned) state champion for the first time on a night when I was very tired and not expecting to play a tournament game, this happened ... from about to be a rook up on move 7, to losing on move 42.

OK, it was 8 moves, not 6. I now present for the absolute delight of all, a disaster that must illustrate incompetence beyond peer ... the likes of which I have never seen reproduced anywhere ... ever!

That is truly world class. To not even be able to save the queen with the check you just provided for it takes some beating. Most impressive.

OK, it was 8 moves, not 6. I now present for the absolute delight of all, a disaster that must illustrate incompetence beyond peer ... the likes of which I have never seen reproduced anywhere ... ever!

As such I claim the Gold Medal before the close of entries. The rest of you may fight it out for Silver and Bronze.

White to play. How about Bf3 - Bc6 rounding up the b pawn and home for tea and cakes? Not a bit of it!

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How about Bd3, intending Rg7? Well that's what white played. The only trouble is that black paralysed (who couldn't leave the 6th) played Re6, and white missed the fork.

1. Bd3 Re6
2. Rg7 Re3+ picking up the Bishop. Ta very much. 0-1 some moves later (not before white managed to miss a forced draw). Wanna see that?

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12 seconds on the clock

And the idiot finds 1.Rh2+ drawing in all lines. The king can neither take the rook nor hide from rolling checks. But after having done the hard work to find and play for the resource, on 1...Kg5, white inexplicably (2 seconds left) plays Rxh2 and loses - to cap off a scintillating day at the office! And off he heads to the middle of the pack for the final round.

Chess is indeed a testy, offensive and cholericke game!

Last edited by Basil; 13-04-2007 at 02:18 AM.

There is no cure for leftism. Its infestation of the host mostly diminishes with age except in the most rabid of specimens.

Thanks. Move 10 is a cracker! After dropping the knight, your single-minded dedication to exchanging material is to be commended.

This game absolutely qualifies. Consider yourself inducted and please join mac and myself in the members' room (exclusive to gold card members). Say hello to Kevin and Trent on the way past (a couple of our silver card members).

Last edited by Basil; 17-04-2007 at 10:39 PM.

There is no cure for leftism. Its infestation of the host mostly diminishes with age except in the most rabid of specimens.

In the position after 9. d5, if memory serves me correctly, you are supposed to play Ne7. The knight on a5 is kind of out of the action. Ne7 can later assist with a kside attack and also undermining the centre with c6.